Conflicting Interests in Relationships

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Absolutely. There are things that have occurred in my past relationships that I know would -not- be acceptable in the course of their religious concept of marriage. It is about the person, not the window dressing as it were.


M.

My issue is that everybody I come across appears to be either left-wing or right-wing politically.

If I am even a moderate conservative, the left-wing radicals will think I am racist and homophobic. If I am even a moderate liberal, the right-wing fundies will think I am evil and condemn me to hell.

It's like moderate people do not exist.

Most will be one, the other, or a little of both - what does their political affiliation have to do with their personality, though? Such reduction doesn't achieve results, only misconception, in my opinion. I've met liberals I can't stand and conservatives I admire... it just isn't truly relevant.


M.

It's not their personality. It's that they generalize about certain political beliefs based on extremist groups from either side.

Just as you are? Not trying to be rude, but it is a surprising double standard.


M.

Just because I don't support abortion, same-sex marriage, or drive a Prius doesn't make me a right-wing fundamentalist.

I don't find it surprising that people who like South Park, The Simpsons, and Indie/Foreign films would be more likely to talk about sex and less concerned about saying something that might be considered bizarre or offensive.

Sex is a topic where what people talk about and what people actually do aren't necessarily the same thing.

Tim, I think maybe you should devote more effort to recruiting potential candidates and less effort to finding reasons to eliminate them.

I'm an atheist, whont ever believe in a god, but that wouldn't prevent me from wanting a relationship with a girl if she was christian or not, hell, wouldn't care if the person saw themselfs as a satanist. Just as long as the religion dosnt have a influence in your relationship, it is ok. As in, one of them trying to convert the other all the time and forcing things upon each other.

Those are the exact sort of generalizations that you are accusing others of making; gross assessments of people, lumping them into categories based on extraneous and rather irrelevant bits of data. That these things -might- trend together does not make them interrelated. I'm trying to point out an error in what I see, that's all.


M.

hey sorry for the random post, i tried to PM makuransoshi but WP died
just wanted acknowledge the wise words here and elsewhere.. hello
erm anyways sorry for hijacking the thread briefly. & good luck Tim Tex

One thing Tim's absolutely right about is the correlation of religious beliefs, but only if there's kids involved and both adults care about their beliefs.

When you got parents with different belief systems, it makes Hiroshima look like a summertime sing around the campfire, and the heterosexual aspie male ain't gonna win or even tie.

Of course, that only matters if there's kids involved, and kids only get involved when the relationship progresses to... well, you know where kids come from.

Yes, but not one who was in your face with their beliefs. And we would have to have other things in common.

As for personality and being goal-oriented, I have been working on that.

As for geographical location, I have no issues with long-distance relationships (especially as nobody in the San Antonio-Austin metro area has the qualities I am looking for).

Yet, my good qualities still get me nowhere. If I come across someone interesting, I always make the first move. Still nothing.

As long as the two people involved get along, communicate well, share some interests, I don't put much focus on labelling oneself religiously or politically.

That's how I feel.

It's the other person that does the labeling.

Also, the vast majority of people who have the same interests as me tend to be the "artsy hipster"-type, a term that does not describe me at all. Add to that that whoever I date must also be an Aspie, and it gets even more difficult.

I would be shunned by them because:

1. I am a Christian
2. I vote Republican, and occasionally lean toward libertarianism
3. I drive a Ford Focus, and plan to own an SUV in the future
4. I am not an artist or a musician
5. I don't drink fancy, European beers
6. I plan to be working in a field where I probably will be wearing a suit and tie to work
7. I don't live in a loft that used to be a warehouse or a factory

Also, I don't feel that I can wait until marriage for sex, and that's a major issue with me, especially when I said that I wanted someone who is a Christian. So I am at odds with both liberals, and fellow conservatives. I am between a rock and a hard place.

I wonder if some of your problem is that you live in an University town? I have never been to America, but I can't help thinking that outside a student enclave, you will not find too many people that drink Becks or Heineken or are artists or musicians or live in lofts etc.

I hope when you graduate and get into the "real world" things are much easier.